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### "The Space Between: How Ideological Similarity Limits the Effectiveness of Ambiguity"
### Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
### Victor Shin and Laron K. Williams
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This folder contains the following files necessary to reproduce the empirical results in the appendix and manuscript:

1)  Strategic Ambiguity - Reproduction.R: R script file that loads the data (SW.RData), calculates summary statistics, estimates the models, plots the marginal effects, and generates quantities of interest. The file contains analysis at the party- and individual-level. All packages necessary to run the file are at the top of the script file.

2) SW.RData: R Data file that contains the party-level data (data.party) and individual-level data (data.ind). 

3) Strategic Ambiguity - Illustrations.R: R script file that simulates different values of ambiguity and overlap and displays them in an 8-panel histogram (Figure 1).

Any questions? Contact Laron K. Williams (williamslaro@missouri.edu)